"Yet this is nothing; if they looke for fame, And meane to haue an everlasting name Amongst the Vulgar, let them seeke for gaine With Ward the Pirat on the boisterous maine; Or else well mounted keepe themselues on land, And bid our wealthy trauellers to stand, Emptying their full-cram'd bags; for that's a tricke Which sometimes wan renoune to _Cutting Dicke_." _Abvses Stript and Whipt_, Lib. II. Sat. 2. Sig. P. ed. 1613. From the following entry by Henslowe we learn that this worthy figured in a play: "Pd. unto Thomas Hewode, the 20th of september [1602], for the new adycions of _Cutting Dick_, the some of xxs." Malone's _Shakespeare_, (by Boswell,) III. 333. P. 14, l. 12, 'tis a world.]--Equivalent to--it is a wonder. P. 14, l. 27, Lack ye? what do you lack, Gentlemen?]--The usual address of the London tradesmen to those who passed by their shops, which were formerly open like booths or stalls at a fair. P. 15, l. 2, sort.]--set, band. P. 15, l. 15, let.]--hindrance. P. 15, l. 23, Master Roger Wiler the Maior.]--An error, it would seem, not of the author, but of the printer, for afterwards (p. 18), the name is given more correctly, _Weild_. In the list of Mayors of Norwich during Elizabeth's reign, drawn up by Blomefield, we find-- "1598, Francis Rugg, 2. 1599, _Roger Weld_. 1600, Alex. Thurston." _Hist. of Norf._ ii. 252. P. 17, l. 1, Wifflers.]--Persons who clear the way for a procession: see Douce's _Ill. of Shakespeare_, I. 506. I may just notice that when Grose compiled his _Prov. Gloss._, the word _whifflers_ had not become obsolete in the city of which Kemp is now speaking. P. 17, l. 4, preaze.]--press. P. 17, l. 17, points.]--tagged laces. P. 18, l. 2, my Jump, the measure of which is to be seene in the Guild-hall at Norwich, &c.]--It is hardly necessary to inform the reader that no memorial of Kemp is now extant in that building. P. 18, l. 10, angels.]--Gold coins, worth about 10s. each. P. 18, l. 11, is a man.]--Old ed. "as _a man_." P. 18, l. 22, commodities.]--goods, in which needy prodigals took either part or whole of the sum they wanted to borrow, and for which they gave a bond: these commodities (sometimes consisting of brown paper!) they were to turn into ready money. Our early writers have innumerable allusions to the custom. P. 18, l. 22, wit, whither wilt thou?]--A kind of proverbial expression, by no means unfrequent: see, for instance, Shakespeare's _As you like it_, Act iv. sc. 1. P. 18, l. 26, tottered.]--tattered. P. 18, l. 30, M. Weild the mayor.]--See note, p. 29. P. 19, l. 8, I put out some money to haue threefold gaine at my returne.] See note, p. 26. P. 19, l. 19, Bench-whistlers.]--perhaps, sottish idlers on ale-house benches; see Gifford's note in B. Jonson's _Works_, i. 103.